"When I lived in Japan (we left when I was 3 1/2) no one _ever_ left the -chan off of my name. "
Of course not. Even to a toddler, one must not be rude. ;-D
Makiwara is a nickname I went by when I first started doing Japanese. (I had been influenced by two friends back east and swiped elements of their persona names: FujiMAKI and FujiWARA to create a rather dreadful pun - a makiwara is an archery target.)
When I finally selected a name, I chose Saionji no Hanae. The Saionji were an aristocratic family at the Imperial Court in the 1200s. Hanae is (a) close to Jehanne (even though nobody addresses me by it!), and (b) Hana is the name of the daughter of the man who got me into the SCA in the first place. Hana means "flower", Hanae means "flower of the bay".
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Date: 2008-09-20 05:15 am (UTC)Of course not. Even to a toddler, one must not be rude. ;-D
Makiwara is a nickname I went by when I first started doing Japanese. (I had been influenced by two friends back east and swiped elements of their persona names: FujiMAKI and FujiWARA to create a rather dreadful pun - a makiwara is an archery target.)
When I finally selected a name, I chose Saionji no Hanae. The Saionji were an aristocratic family at the Imperial Court in the 1200s. Hanae is (a) close to Jehanne (even though nobody addresses me by it!), and (b) Hana is the name of the daughter of the man who got me into the SCA in the first place. Hana means "flower", Hanae means "flower of the bay".